In Sciencism: Critical Eye this week, host Ross Balch is joined by Dan Abrahmsen and David Balch.In the skeptical new; is the new Muppets movie brainwashing our kids? Media hype, misconceptions about child abuse. The FDA send warnings to homeopathic weightloss providers. Yet another psychic octopus. Australian scientists speak out about chiropractic degree and the Da Vinci code in the Mona Lisa.

This week in Sciencism: Critical Eye, Ross Balch is joined by Natalie McKirdy, Dan Abrahmsen and David Balch. We discuss exorcism, gecko trade for traditional medicine, measels outbreak in the UK, hypothes.is new website, 7 year old girl who is “crying” stones and a multiple UFO event over Seattle.

In Sciencism: Critical Eye this week; host Ross Balch is joined by Dan Abrahmsen. In science news we discuss why people with sickle-cell anaemia get increased resistance to malaria, a computerised pathologist, magentic cows, the official extinctions of the western black rhino and a new “albino spider”. We talk about the issues of censorship and ideological bias affecting science jouralism. There is an urban legend about “seeing” a nuclear blast even if you are blind. We also have the skeptical news including spontaneous human combustion, strange objects seen on google earth in China, more Jesus pareidolia and strange numerology rituals surrounding 11/11/11. We round off the show by analysing the “evidence” for why powerade improves your performance.

This week on Sciencism: Critical Eye, Ross Balch is joined by Dan Abrahmsen and David Balch. We discuss Australia’s Shonky awards, UK “psychic” Sally Morgan denies Randi’s million dollar challenge, belief and confidence affecting performance, Boots remove homeopathy point of sale, Harld Camping apology, “Rod” spotted on NRL game and pareidolia in a testical. We also discuss what comprises good science.